Projects
16th IHIW Projects
To date several Workshop Projects have been proposed; some continuing from the 15th Workshop. Anyone interested should contact the organisers of each project. Other proposed Projects are welcomed and will be vetted by IHIW Councilors prior to acceptance.
Update - you can now download a PDF of the EFI 2011 Presentations from here.
Solid Organ Transplantation
- Improving Prediction of Chronic Rejection by Donor Specific Antibody and Serum Creatinine - Paul Terasaki and Mikki Ozawa (Click here for further details)
- Evaluation of Antibody Frequencies and Solid Phase Assays - Andrea Zachary andJohn Hart (Click here for further details)
- Towards Standardization of Microparticle-based, Solid Phase, HLA Antibody Identification Assay - Robert Bray and Howard Gebel (Click here for further details)
- MICA-MICB Project - Peter Stasny and Yizhou Zou (Click here for further details)
- The Role of Natural Killer Cells in Solid Organ Transplantation - Jeroen van Bergen and Ilias Doxiadis (Click here for further details)
- Prevalence of IgA anti-HLA antibodies and previous graft survival in kidney re-transplant candidates - Bernd Spriewald, Marie-Luise Arnold and Ilias Doxiadis (Click here for further details)
Stem Cell Transplantation
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International Histocompatibility Working Group in Haematopoietic Cell Transplantation - Effie Petersdorf and Mari Malkki (Click here for further details)
Anthropology
- Population global distribution of KIR and ligand - Jill Hollenbach, Raja Rajalingam, Derek Middleton (Click here for further details)
- AHPD: Analysis of HLA Population Data - Alicia Sanchez Mazas (Click here for further details)
- Global Distribution of Extended HLA Haplotypes - Medhat Askar and Marcelo Fernandez-Vina (Click here for further details)
Bioinformatics
- Immunogenomic Data Management Methods - Steve Mack and Jill Hollenbach (Click here for further details)
- Frequencies of Rare Alleles - Faviel Gonzalez, Marcelo Fernandez-Vina, Derek Middleton (Click here for further details)
- IHIWS Registry Diversity Project - Martin Maiers, Carlheinz Müller, Steven Marsh (Click here for further details)
- Development of an HLA Epitope Database - Rene Duquesnoy (Click here for further details)
New Frontiers
- Next Generation HLA Sequencing - Dianne De Santis, Richard Allcock (Click here for further details)
- The Analysis of HLA Class I Non-coding Regions - Linda Smith (Click here for further details)
- Pharmacogenomics - Clara Gorodezky and Susie Leffell (Click here for further details)
- Immunogenetics of Aging - Elissaveta Naumova, Graham Pawelec and Milena Isanova (Click here for further details)
- Reproductive Immunology - Marighoula Varla-Leftherioti, Marilyn Spyropoulou-Vlachou (Click here for further details)
If you have any other suggestions for projects please contact Derek Middleton and Steven GE Marsh, Chairs of the 16th International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop, at steven [dot] marsh [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk, Derek [dot] Middleton [at] rlbuht [dot] nhs [dot] uk.